Volcanoes in the Solar System

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Outline

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Earth's Moon

• moon
  • has light-colored craters
• craters
  • meteorites have smashed there
• smooth areas
  • lava flowed a long time ago

Volcanoes on Venus

• Magellan's mission
  • in 1990
• Venus
  • wide-spread volcanic activity
    • has thousands of volcanoes

Volcanoes on Mars

• Mars
  • only few volcanoes on surface
    • has variety of volcano features
• a very big volcano on Mars
  • biggest on the solar system
• Martian Volcanoes
  • aren't active

Volcanoes on distant moons

• Many different volcanoes
  • in Venus and Mars
• few in some areas
  • `Jupiter
    • Saturn
      • Neptune